a parish of England, and eastern suburb of London, in the borough of Tower Hamlets, lying to the east of the city, 2½ miles E. of St Paul's. It contains numerous churches and dissenting places of worship, a grammar and other schools, a Baptist college, the London Hospital, and other charitable institutions. Many manufactures are carried on here to a considerable extent; among other establishments there are breweries, manufactories of sail-cloth, sails, tobacco-pipes, ropes, chain-cables, and steam-engines. Stepney contains the basin of the Regent's canal, which here joins the Thames. Area, 812 acres. Pop. 80,128.